Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting organisations. The Fire Service and Tescos
Task1: P1
The business environments
Types of business
The fire service is a national based service but has individual bases. This is a public service has it is run by the government and own by the economy. Roughly there are 45,000 people working within the fire service all around the country. There are around 1500 fire stations in the United Kingdom, and they are a major key too safety in your area as they are on hand 24/7 to keep the area safe. They are constantly on the go making sure there are no fires in the area, and keeping everybody safe! The fire services work very closely with paramedics and the police ad all three make a team too keep the whole area safe.
The ownership of this public sector business is of less risk then private company’s whose aim to create as much money into the business. The reason is because in a public sector business there aim is to provide and be of a benefit to the public. The government department of customs and revenue collect tax from the people who work. The money from the tax is spread between all different departments set up by the government (i.e. NHS, police etc.) within this is the fire service. Advantages too this would be that it’s a non-profit facility, that it’s already paid for and financed by the government and more efficient. Disadvantages would be that the fire services budgets can be cut and they could have too lose staff, a clash between the economy and the sufficiency of a service and watchful management because of the fear of public blame. Overall I believe that they are using the right style of ownership over this business, this is because the fire service is a non-profit making department, being a public service gives anybody the right to use it, weather there paying their tax or not! Using money from the tax shows that all working people support this service.